Healthcare: The Hottest IPO You’ve Never Heard Of
Industry Focus
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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Pinterest, Beyond Meat, and Uber might be grabbing all of the financial headlines, but a little-known medical device company called Shockwave Medical (NASDAQ:SWAV) recently went public and has been a massive winner for early investors.
In this episode of Industry Focus: Healthcare, host Shannon Jones and fool.com contributors Brian Feroldi take a closer look at Shockwave Medical’s technology, market opportunity, and financial statements to discuss why Wall Street is so excited.
They also provide investors with an update on Novocure (NASDAQ:NVCR), which is another fast-growing medical device maker that recently secured an important regulatory win.
Stocks mentioned: SWAV, NVCR
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every single day. |
| 0:08.0 | Today is Wednesday, June 5th, and we're talking health care. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Shannon Jones Jones and I am joined via Skype |
| 0:14.2 | by a very special guest our own medical device med tech champion Brian for |
| 0:19.2 | oldie. Brian let me just say I'm always excited when you are on the show. |
| 0:23.6 | You've just been such a huge advocate and really champion for investors to really |
| 0:27.9 | start paying attention and focusing on this space. |
| 0:31.2 | I mean, this is really where you've seen the monstrous gains come from in 2018 so I'm |
| 0:35.5 | always thrilled when I have you back because you always bring such interesting |
| 0:39.2 | stocks to talk about. Yeah I love digging into small med tech companies. They are certainly a favorite of mine. So always happy to talk about these companies. |
| 0:47.0 | Yes, and for our listeners, be sure to check out his coverage on fool.com. Brian writes like a beast, I don't know how you keep up with everything, but between |
| 0:56.6 | interviews, earnings coverage, updates from a lot of these companies, you can always check him out |
| 1:01.8 | on fool.com highly recommended |
| 1:03.6 | but for today's show we're gonna be giving you updates on a stock that we talked |
| 1:08.6 | about earlier in the year has been on an absolute tear since the start of the new year and also we've got an |
| 1:15.3 | IPO that likely many of you have never even heard of but should definitely be on |
| 1:21.0 | your radar and hopefully so after today's show. |
| 1:24.3 | Brian let's kick things off with an update from a company we spoke about earlier this year. |
| 1:28.9 | That's DeviceMaker Novocure and for our listeners that's ticker symbol |
| 1:33.1 | n VCR. |
| 1:35.4 | You can say they've had a rather an orthodox approach |
| 1:38.4 | to treating cancer, particularly when it comes |
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